East Asian Studies
Yosuke Nirei, Ph.D. | Coordinator
(574) 520-4395 | internationalprog.iusb.edu
Faculty
Coordinator | Nirei
Faculty Advisors | L. Chen, Green, Obata, Sernau, Walker, Xu, Yu
About East Asian Studies
The minor focuses on the studies of East Asia, its cultures, societies, histories, and languages, as well as on the experiences of people from the United States and their descendants from the East Asian regions. East Asia mainly consists of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and the bordering areas in Asia and the Pacific. The approach is interdisciplinary, combining a variety of fields including history, language, media and gender studies, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Minor Offered
Course Descriptions
Japanese and Chinese EALC
Minor in East Asian Studies
Notes
- All coursework for the minor must be planned with an advisor from the East Asian Studies minor faculty. To preserve the minor’s interdisciplinary focus, courses must be drawn from at least two different departments.
- Courses should also represent a student’s range of study beyond one national framework.
- The 6 credit hours of electives may be drawn from the listed courses or an approved substitute. Students seeking to apply a course with a comprehensive theme (rather than with an East Asian regional theme) to the minor (not to a core course) must demonstrate that a major portion of their works, such as a longer term paper or research assignment, has dealt directly with a topic of East Asia.
Concentration Requirements (15 cr.)
All courses are 3 credit hours, unless otherwise designated.
- One 400-level course with East Asian Studies focus; or 300-level course with East Asian Studies focus with an additional research or term paper requirement; or independent study; or study abroad (3 cr.)
Select two of the following core courses:
- EALC-E 271 Twentieth Century Japanese Culture
- HIST-G 300 Issues in Asian History
- HIST-G 358 Early Modern Japan
- HIST-G 369 Modern Japan
- HIST-H 207 Modern East Asian Civilization
- HIST-H 237 Traditional East Asian Civilization
Select two of the following electives:
- CJUS-P 471 Comparative Study of Criminal Justice Systems
- EALC-E 271 Twentieth Century Japanese Culture
- EALC-J 301 Third-Year Japanese 1
- EALC-J 302 Third-Year Japanese 2
- EALC-J 401 Fourth-Year Japanese I
- GEOG-G 201 World Regional Geography
- HIST-G 300 Issues in Asian History
- HIST-G 358 Early Modern Japan
- HIST-G 369 Modern Japan
- HIST-H 207 Modern East Asian Civilization
- HIST-H 237 Traditional East Asian Civilization
- HIST-J495 Proseminar for History Majors
VT: Social and Cultural History of Modern East Asia - HIST-T 190 Literary and Intellectual Traditions
VT: Japanese Aesthetics and Thought - HIST-T 390 Literary and Intellectual Traditions
VT: Gender and Sexuality in East Asia - PHIL-P 374 Early Chinese Philosophy
- POLS-Y 107 Introduction to Comparative Politics
- POLS-Y 324 Women and Politics
- REL-R 153 Religions of Asia
- TEL-R 404 Topical Seminar in Telecommunications
VT: Japan, Asia, and the World in Media